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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The NDP and their propaganda wing at Press Progress made the tactical error of assuming an entire month of this would cause increasing outrage rather than increasing apathy. Eventually, people just decide that the same whining over and over is boring and tune it out.
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They completely overdid it too. The bozo eruptions vary between the very minor: Someone 'liked' something uncouth on social media some years ago to the more major, where Mark Smith's sermon combined with his paper on firing catholic teachers for being gay can probably serve as a proxy manifesto on where his beliefs around sexual minorities really lie. But by totally overdoing all the other stuff it makes it a lot easier for people who are not as engaged to dismiss the Smith uproar as just another component of the gutter politics campaign the NDP is waging.
They also continuously make the mistake of assuming what's shocking / 'beyond the pale' is aligned among voters. They are using the Mike Morrison types as the barometer of what's okay / not okay. That isn't necessarily where the median of Alberta voters are situated.